On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:18:12PM -0500, Robert Taylor wrote:
> couldn't you use a lazy loading scheme such that the
> Department reference in each Customer is not "loaded" until
> accessed and even when the Department is "loaded" only the
> primary Department data is loaded (no object references).
> So in essence, you only get what you need, when you need it.
That sounds like a pretty good approach (although I admit I
haven't worked with lazy loading to that extent). So in
other words with the beans below:
DepartmentVO
------------
Integer id;
String name;
List fooBarList; //of some kind of other heavy objects
List fooBar2List; //of some kind of other heavy objects
EmployeeVO
----------
Integer id;
String name;
DepartmentVO dept;
Now you are saying when displaying the list of Employees
only the id and name of the DepartmentVO might be loaded in
each Department, but if later I needed fooBarList a call to
that would then load up the List for me.
I like that approach.
--
Rick
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